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WILLIAM H. NEWELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BASIN OR BATH WASTE AND OVERFLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 401,579, dated. April 16, 1839. Application filed January 11, 1888. Serial No. 260,403. (No model.)

threaded for a nut, which bears against the under side of the support, whereby the guide is kept in place.

The handle H is cylindrical in form, and has its lower edge, K, inclined, and the inner ful Improvement in Basin or Bath NVaste and face of the guide has a shoulder, L, whose Overflow, which improvement is fully set upper face is inclined, corresponding to the forth in the following specification and acincline of the handle H. companying drawings. Projecting outwardly from the bottom of My invention consists of an exposed basin the handle H is a vertical pin,M, and projector bath waste and overflow formed of a holing inwardly from the guide J is a horizontal low stand whose lower end constitutes a pin, N, which pins are so disposed that when valve which is seated in the base of the basin the handle is raised to the required extent or loath, a rotatable handle which is conthe pin M, which is somewhat lengthy, abuts I 5 nected with said stand, and means, substanagainst the pin N, thus preventing further tially as claimed, for causing the ascent of rotation and ascent of the handle. said handle when rotated, whereby the stand It will be seen that when the parts are in the is raised and the valve thereby opened, as position shown in Fig. 1 the basin is closed, will be hereinafter fully set forth. and should the water rise above the stand it It also consists of means for adjusting the will enter the same, thus preventing overflow connection of the handle and stand. of the basin or tub.

It further consists of means for limiting the WVhen it is desired to clear the basin, the ascent of the handle and consequent opening handle H is rotated, whereby it rides up the of the valve. incline or inclined shoulder L and carries Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a with it the hook G, and consequently the basin or bath waste and overflow embodying stand, the valve E thus leaving the seat B my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section of and uncovering the latter, so that the water a portion on line w 00, Fig. 1. may readily escape from the basin. By ro- Similar letters of reference indicate corretating the handle in the opposite direction it sponding parts in the two figures. rides down the incline L, whereby the stand Referring to the drawings, A represents a D lowers and the valve thereof closes in its portion of a wash-basin, the same having an seat B.

The hook G, owing to its threaded shank,

opening in its bottom or base, which is occupied by a seat, B,with which latter the wastemay be raised and lowered by properly rotat- 3 5 pipe O is connected. ing the same, so as to adjust the stand to the depth of the basin.

D represents a hollow stand or pipe, whose hen the stand is raised by hand, it may lower end constitutes a stopper or valve, E, which is fitted to the seat B. At the top of be readily disconnected from the hook G and the stand is a cross-bar, F, with which is conentirely removed, and the several parts sepanected a hook, G, whose shank is screwed to rated for purposes of cleansing and repairs, a plug or handle, H, the latter entering a after which the parts may be replaced and connected, these operations being easily acguide, J, which is sustained above the basin.

complished, owing to the simplicity of construction of the device.

A screw is passed into the side of the handle H, having its point beneath the shankl-Iaving thus described my invention, whatl screw of the hook G, thereby preventing the said shank-screw frombecoming loose during claim as new, and deslre to secure by Letters Patent, is

the operation of the device. The guide J is formed of a hollow piece of material with a 1. An operating device for a stand-pipe of horizontally-projecting flange on its upper a bath or basin waste or overflow, consisting of a detachable guide with horizontal flange 5o portion for engagement with the top wall of the supports, and has its lower end screwat its upper portion and screw-threaded lower To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM II. NEWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useend, and having on its interior Wall an ininclined under face andavertical pin projectclined shoulder and a horizontal projecting ing therefrom, a hollow guide having an inpin, a handle With inclined lower edge and clined shoulder on which the inclined under I 5 shoulder bearing on the inclined shoulder of face of said rotary plug bears, and a horizonthe guide, and a vertical depending pin the tal pin projecting across the path of said Ver hook G, With shank-screw, and the screW ain tical pin, said pins being Within said plug and the side of the handle and with point below guide, said parts being combined substanthe shank-screw, said parts being combined tially as described.

substantially as and for the purpose set forth. WM. H. N EWELL. IO 2. In a device of the character described, a Witnesses:

stand-pipe forming a Valve, a rotary plug con- JOHN A. VVIEDERSHEIM,

nected with said stand-pipe and having an JNO. K. PLITT. 

